Unix in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

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f (frame) command (GDB)

factor command false command 2nd Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator (flex) command fc command 2nd fdformat command

fflush function (gawk)

fg command

     Bash and Korn shells

     GDB

     tcsh shell 2nd

fgrep command

fi (shell keyword)

figlet program

/etc/passwd file

.profile file

file command

     ex

     GDB

file creation mode mask file descriptors

file flags, changing

file inclusion facility, gawk

file inquiry operators (tcsh)

file management commands     chgrp     chmod

     chown     csplit     Emacs     GDB

     split     vi file properties (Subversion) file resolution (GDB) filename command filename metacharacter, Bash and kshfilenames

     metacharacters

         Bash and Korn shells         pattern matching vs.         tcsh

     reducing pathnames to

     stripping from pathnames

     temporary, generating for use in script

.po filesfiles

     access and modification times, updating     access modes, changing (chmod)

     calculating checksum     classifying by data type     comparing         comm command         diff command

         diff3 command

         sdiff command

         vimdiff command

     compiling

    converting

         character sets

         DOS to ISO

         ISO to DOS

     converting into tables with yacc

     copying

         ditto command

         remotely

         securely between network hosts

         to or from tape     counting words/characters/lines of

     crontab files

     deleting with rm

     disassembling

     display format options (hexdump)     displaying by page     dot files

     encoded, recreating original file     extracting columns/fields with cut     formatting lines in     formatting with pr command

     joining similar lines of     linking    listing         for current directory         those to be executed     listing shared objects for     merging lines into columns

     moving or renaming

     name list (symbol table), printing     numbering lines in     object files, displaying profile data for

     overwriting to make unrecoverable

     ownership of

         changing (chown)

     paging    printing

         appending to         initial lines of

         last lines of         lp command     pseudonyms (links) for     removing duplicate lines     removing information from

     removing with srm

     renaming

    retrieving from Internet

         curl command 2nd

         wget command 2nd

     searching for with find

     size of

     sorting

     splitting into multiple files

         based on size

     synchronizing across network connection 2nd

     uncompressing with zcat

filesync Solaris command

filesystem-related parametersfilesystems

     ISO 9660/Joliet/HFS filesystem

     mount command

     mounting

         GNU/Linux 2nd         Mac OS X         Solaris

     Unix, serving to Windows systems     unmounting 2nd         GNU/Linux umount         Mac OS X

         Solaris filetest command (tcsh) find command finger command finish command (GDB) Fink package manager     Aqua-based GUI

flags

     changing file flags     Debian packages     format specifiers for printf and sprintf

flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer Generator) command

floppy disks

     ejecting

     formatting fmt command

fo (forward-search) command (GDB) focus command (GDB)

fold command (ex) foldclose command (ex) foldopen command (ex) for command (awk) for loop

for shell keyword

foreach command (tcsh)

format specifiers for printf and sprintf

formatting disks and memory cards

formatting files with pr command

formatting text (fmt command)

Fortran programming language, compiling (gcc)

forward-search command (GDB)

frame command (GDB)

free disk space, reporting

freshen options (rpm)

FTP (File Transfer Protocol), secure transfer using ssh (sftp)

ftp command

function (shell keyword) function command (awk)

functions

    awk

         alphabetical summary

         group listing     built-in mathematical functions (ksh93)     discipline functions (ksh93)

     GNU make, for text manipulation     listing names (ctags)     user-defined, in awk functions command (ksh)